Cultivating the “Heart of a Stranger”
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by Amy and Patrick Seifer
In the fall of 2022, I (Patrick) helped start a free ESL class at my church in Orlando, Florida. The percentage of families in the schools near our church who do not speak English as a first language is easily fifty percent.
The Wednesday night class started … Continue reading
Sometimes it’s good…
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by S. M.
She was late that day--that day in Tehran 5 years ago when Mahdy1 took her son to the dentist, and so arrived late at the meeting place afterwards; that day the police were everywhere, and the sisters and brothers had been taken. After taking one look around, Mahdy left again … Continue reading
A Reminder of Joy
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by Shoshannah Hernandez
Earlier this year, I boarded a plane for London, on my way to Serock, Poland, to spend a few weeks just outside of Warsaw training EFL and STEM teachers from Poland and Ukraine. I sat in the airplane seat with that familiar pit in my stomach. You know the one. It’s … Continue reading
Dramatization as Sense-Making
A while back, we started looking at sense-making activities for the presentation phase of a lesson. Our first post introduced the idea; our second listed types of sense-making activities with brief examples. Then, we've slowly made our way through each type with more … Continue reading
Making Sense with Guided Discussions
A while back, we started looking at sense-making activities for the presentation phase of a lesson. Our first post introduced the idea; our second listed types of sense-making activities with brief examples. Now, we are slowly making our way through each type with more … Continue reading
